The Honorable Albio Sires, U.S. House of Representatives (NJ-13), Jersey City, NJ

Congressman Albio Sires serves the 13th Congressional District of New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives. Previously, he served two terms as New Jersey Speaker of the General Assembly from 2002 to 2006. Before being elected to Congress, Sires was serving his fourth term as an Assemblyman for the 33rd District in New Jersey and had been the Mayor of the Town of West New York in Hudson County since 1995.

Congressman Sires was born in 1951 in the Cuban town of Bejucal, where he grew up in the waning years of pre-Communist Cuba. His family fled Cuba in January 1962 with the help of relatives in America. They eventually settled in West New York, where he became a star basketball player at Memorial High School. Sires earned his undergraduate degree from St. Peter's College, where he received a four-year basketball scholarship. He attained a graduate degree at Middlebury College, VT. Congressman Sires' wife, Adrienne, is a school administrator. He has a stepdaughter, Tara Kole, who served a U.S. Supreme Court clerkship with Justice Antonin Scalia after graduation from Harvard Law School last year. She now works for a private law firm in Los Angeles.